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There is certainly a logically sound approach to metaphysics at this level - the dichotomy. And that can be cashed out mathematically - ie: measurably...

But the brain doesn't run on electricity. The "fluxes" are at best ionic gradients across axonal membranes - sodium and potassium. And these are all r...

Note the definition of substance is about that "which stands behind everything". So you can consider the reverse proposition. What if "stuff" is the e...

That is rather the point. Freedom without limits has too much symmetry. Once you make everything equally possible, then its own negation is just as po...

Yes, there is always pain and pleasure. But the cooperative end of the spectrum is also experienced in these terms. Who enjoys feeling constrained and...

Mmm. I would argue instead that we are only just getting to a position of understanding how the transition from the quantum to the classical scale of ...

If a system - such as a social system - is working properly, then competition~cooperation is a dynamic that will be in full effect over all its scales...

Replying to the essence of your position, I've indicated here - https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/105999 - why you might be right abou...

Think it through. If everything is free to happen in one way, it is also free to happen in the other. And the outcome is that you have two freedoms th...

Human society is based on the dynamic of global co-operation in interaction with local competition. The two are a mutually reinforcing deal. They go t...

I won’t derail here. But I might reply in that thread. A quick skim already brings up the fact that the kind of organic chemistry scale quantum cohere...

That’s right if we are talking about the Kurzweil argument that AI will actually become the conscious super intelligent machines that replace us. But ...

Should I say this? I find it quite exciting to be alive at this freakishly balanced moment in creation where we can both look back to see how the whol...

Is it a bad choice to privilege intelligence in a generalised sense? I can see that there is the view that life is sacred in some (spiritual) sense. S...

All your points are familiar. But where I have changed my own position is on having any certainty as to which way the system will go. I certainly used...

Hi Janus. Isn't the problem that on the whole, humans seem to love this "monstrous" future more than they hate it? So it certainly isn't "my" dream as...

This is what annoys me. You misrepresent. Again, your Kantian epistemology is our shared departure point. We can only speak of reality as pragmatic tr...

I enjoyed browsing your site. And of course there are both similarities and differences in our views. But generally, this is about the contrast betwee...

I’m just interested how you think Panpsychism can work. Where’s the detail? How would you test this hypothesis? What perspective would reveal the expe...

Thanks for that - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281055385_The_role_of_interoceptive_inference_in_theory_of_mind/fulltext/563c935908aec6f17d...

Hey there yourself. :up:

Cheryl Misak has been doing very readable accounts of what Peirce is about and his legacy - Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and ...

No need.

I've heard every version of panpsychism. Different perspectives on the "same stuff" remains Cartesian unless you can truly dissociate your position fr...

More pointless snark. The generator would be the "physical" process. So whatever nature is and how it counts as a generative process. (The Big Bang te...

But panpsychism fails because it is just Cartesian dualism in thin disguise. It is an attempt to treat "mind" as a further substantial property of mat...

The problem - as ever - is to accept a Cartesian framing of Nature in this fashion. Your opposition of res cogitans and res extensa. My systems scienc...

A great quote. Unfortunately neoliberalism may have had its own logic in paving the way for the move from human-scale economies to inhuman-scale ones....

Well, nature is the generator. So really I am talking about the long tradition within metaphysics and science that seeks an immanent and self organisi...

Hmm. So what is the entropy content of the decimal expansion of Pi? Is the resulting bit string all signal - that is minimally entropic? Or all noise ...

If we talk at cross purposes, it is because you turn the original question about the ontology of patterns - are they real, and thus in what sense? - i...

No, it starts things. It accepts that any ontological enquiry is rooted in a pragmatic epistemology. We can only "know" the world via whatever modelli...

Why is there something rather than everything? (Ie: What convinces you that you have started at the right end of the question?)

You are ranting against theists now. And all my arguments are atheistic. It is a mathematical term - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(mathemat...

Can you supply me with a single example of a pattern in nature for which it is scientifically accepted it has no generating process? As I have stresse...

It is all models. What more are you hoping for here? Revelation? Faith? In a general way, we are talking about a form or state of organisation that so...

Yep. Almost all the matter and anti-matter - as mirror image states - did cancel each other away to leave the blazing sizzle of a cooling and expandin...

Peirce never wrote books as such. But his writings were voluminous. So there is no easy way in. I don't really get what you mean by points and quantit...

Don't be afraid of the T word. As a natural philosopher (cf: Stan Salthe), we can parse finality into the developmental stages of {tendencies {functio...

Physics has shown that material particles only "break down" as far as their simplest possible symmetry states. So quarks exist as a mathematical limit...

Skip Hegel and jump straight to Peirce. :razz: But seriously, they are all on a continuum as process philosophers - talking about a reality that self-...

Note that you are imagining a patternless state - a blank sheet - that you then ...for some reason... want to impose a pattern. And the pattern is the...

The irony here is that "complete chance" must arrive at a lawful statistical conformity. If nature tried to do absolutely anything and everything all ...

Yes, the systems view is always going to be rooted in Aristoteleanism. That was the first deep cut. The group that Barbieri was part of were Peirce-li...

I did jump around a bit to try to get some sense of where you arrived. Again - as with your panpsychic discussion in the mind section - my criticism w...

I looked through to see what our sharpest point of divergence might be. I generally agree with what you say you stand against, but I don’t think you h...

My approach to dichotomies treats them as the mutual limits on possibility so you are always talking about relative states of affairs. So "world" and ...

Hah. That is a pretty neat diagram. I hadn't seen it. And it makes a lot of sense to me in that it can be read from a modern systems-thinking perspect...

Reading of both the IEP article and the Architecture of Theories paper I referenced show that Peirce's game was trying to impose a uniting classificat...